Site disappears, then reappears

[whatson]

My site's position keeps disappearing for some of its search terms, then it will be back for some of them, then gone again, but back for some other ones.
What does this mean? The positions are constant on Yahoo.
Does it mean that the site will keep these positions or loose them?

[WebMistress]

What do you mean by disappearing? For moments, days?

Today, I've noticed that there are different results on www-va, so sometimes when I search on www, I get www-va results and other times one of the other datacenters. Maybe you should do the search on www-va and then on www2..and see if the differences you are seeing match that, then it can just be explained by the fact that it's showing different data centers on different search attempts.

However, if you are saying it disappeared for days then back, then disappeared, then you're in the same boat as many of us, and we're all equally baffled.

[whatson]

I was just referring to www.google.com not the data centers. The positions for the site disappear, for example at one stage it will be #5, then not in the top 100, then I check and hour later and it will be back at #5.
I was just wondering which position will it be when the "dance" is complete.

[whatson]

I was just referring to www.google.com not the data centers. The positions for the site disappear, for example at one stage it will be #5, then not in the top 100, then I check and hour later and it will be back at #5.
I was just wondering which position will it be when the "dance" is complete.

[WebMistress]

That sounds like it's just showing different data center results when you search. I see that happening too, and the only datacenter I see different is www-va (I think I saw one other but now don't recall which one)....I verify this by checking all data centers, then I see where that difference is happening and know www is accessing different datacenters sometimes when I do a search.

[AthlonInside]

I think different algorithm is tested on different datacenters, so with some algo, you rank well, but with others you activate some filter. But I don't think we should worried so much at this moment because there are just too many sites having the same faith at the moment.

[SkinnyJoe]

Hey Whatson,

Same thing happened to me.

Thought maybe I was imagining things until your post popped up here.

Apparently, it is not a weird penalty, just an idiosyncrasy of Google. (Let's hope!)

-SkinnyJoe

[drmkensington]

Join the club! I've had weeks of this 'google tease' and posted a few posts on this during the last week. It seems to be a fresh bot prob. I'm happy today to be back on page 2 after 5 days lost in google wastelands. It is like being on a diet and checking the scales every day - somedays you just cry :))

david m

[whatson]

Well its good to hear I am not the only one seeing this, but do you think the positions will remain when the dance is complete?

[drmkensington]

psychic I'm not :))

dm